SimplyHired Scraper

Extract structured job listings from SimplyHired.com — one of the largest US job aggregators with over 100,000 active listings across all industries and locations. No API key required, no account needed.

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Why this scraper?

🔍 Keyword + location search

Search by any keyword and any US city, state, or ZIP code. Combine both to target the exact market you are monitoring.

📋 Full job descriptions

Three formats in every result: HTML (for rendering), plain text (for analysis), and Markdown (for LLMs and pipelines). Fetched from the canonical job page.

💰 Structured salary data

Where published by the employer, salary minimum, maximum, and period (hourly, annual) are returned as numeric fields — ready for aggregation and comparison without string parsing.

🔁 Repost detection

Cross-run deduplication flags listings that reappear under a new posting ID. Filter them out to keep your dataset clean, or track them to measure time-on-market.

🗓️ Date filtering

The Max age (days) filter limits results to listings posted in the last 1, 3, 7, 14, or 30 days — ideal for scheduled runs tracking only new postings.

🎯 Employment type filtering

Filter by full-time, part-time, contract, temporary, or internship in a single input field.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
searchQuery	String	No	Keywords to search for (e.g. nurse, Java developer)
location	String	No	City, state, or ZIP code (e.g. Austin, TX, 10001)
jobType	String	No	fulltime, parttime, contract, temporary, internship
daysOld	Integer	No	Max age of listings in days (1, 3, 7, 14, or 30)
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum listings to return (default: 100, max: 10,000)
fetchDetails	Boolean	No	Fetch full description from each listing page (default: true)
skipReposts	Boolean	No	Skip listings seen in previous runs (default: false)
startUrls	Array	No	Specific SimplyHired job URLs to scrape directly

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Output schema

{
  "id": "AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOpQrSt",
  "url": "https://www.simplyhired.com/job/AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOpQrSt",
  "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
  "company": "Acme Corp",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "salary": "$120,000 - $160,000 a year",
  "salaryMin": 120000,
  "salaryMax": 160000,
  "salaryPeriod": "YEAR",
  "currency": "USD",
  "jobType": "FULL_TIME",
  "remote": false,
  "companyRating": 4.2,
  "sponsored": false,
  "latitude": 30.2672,
  "longitude": -97.7431,
  "benefits": ["Health insurance", "401(k)", "Dental insurance"],
  "requirements": ["Python", "AWS", "5+ years experience"],
  "description": "<div class=\"jobDescription\">...</div>",
  "descriptionText": "We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "## About the role\n\nWe are looking for...",
  "applyUrl": "https://acme.com/careers/apply/123",
  "publishDate": "2026-04-01",
  "publishDateISO": "2026-04-01",
  "contentHash": "a1b2c3d4e5f67890",
  "summary": "Senior Software Engineer at Acme Corp — Austin, TX",
  "source": "simplyhired.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-04T09:15:33.000Z",
  "isRepost": false,
  "originalPublishDate": null,
  "originalUrl": null
}

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Examples

Example 1 — Browse all nursing jobs nationwide

{
  "searchQuery": "nurse",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Example 2 — Recent software engineering jobs in San Francisco

{
  "searchQuery": "software engineer",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA",
  "jobType": "fulltime",
  "daysOld": 7,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Example 3 — Fast list-level snapshot without descriptions

{
  "searchQuery": "marketing",
  "daysOld": 3,
  "fetchDetails": false,
  "maxResults": 500,
  "skipReposts": true
}

Example 4 — Scrape specific known job listings

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.simplyhired.com/job/AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOpQrSt" },
    { "url": "https://www.simplyhired.com/job/LmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ12345" }
  ]
}

Example 5 — Daily monitor: new contract jobs in New York

{
  "searchQuery": "data analyst",
  "location": "New York, NY",
  "jobType": "contract",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true,
  "maxResults": 1000
}

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💰 Pricing

$1.99 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries and filtered reposts are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.20
1,000	~$1.99
10,000	~$19.90
100,000	~$199.00

Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$99/month regardless of usage. At 5,000 results/month, this scraper costs far less with no commitment.

Use the Max results cap and fetchDetails: false to control your spend precisely.

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Performance

Run size	fetchDetails	Approx. duration
100 results	true	~3–5 min
500 results	true	~12–20 min
1,000 results	false	~5–8 min
5,000 results	false	~20–35 min

SimplyHired serves approximately 20 results per page.

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Known limitations

• Apply URL: SimplyHired routes applications through a tracking layer. The applyUrl field contains the employer's redirected destination where available; it may be null when the application flow is handled internally.
• Salary: Not published by all employers — will be null for listings without disclosed compensation.
• Sponsored listings: Sponsored results appear in the same feed as organic results and are not filtered out. Use skipReposts across scheduled runs to avoid double-counting.
• Remote/hybrid status: Only flagged when the listing explicitly contains "remote" in the location field. Hybrid arrangements may not always be captured.

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Technical details

• Source: simplyhired.com — US job aggregator with 100,000+ active listings
• Memory: 512 MB
• Repost storage: KeyValueStore simplyhired-job-dedup, 90-day TTL
• Retry: Automatic retry on network errors, exponential backoff, 3 attempts per request
• Concurrency: Sequential page fetching with session pinning

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Additional services

Need a custom actor, additional filters, scheduled runs, or integration support? Send an email to info@unfencedgroup.nl — we build on request.

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